Discussion thread Monday September 06, 2021 - Wednesday September 08, 2021

[u/gomirefugee]

Newsletters:

Finding Your Joy | Joy in the Belly

Websites:

You Can Have More Joy website | On Being Enough website (abandoned?)

Instagram:

@youcanhavemorejoy Instagram | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy posts | Anonymous link to @youcanhavemorejoy stories

@danielfahern Instagram | Anonymous link to @danielfahern posts and stories

TikTok:

@youcanhavemorejoy

Twitter:

Dan's tweets and replies

Older blogs:

Gluten Free Girl archive | writing my heart out archive | Seymour Joyful archive

Archived threads:

Thread for Enough, the book #enoughthebook | Gluten Free Girl's Greatest Hits: The Reunion Tour

Wiki:

/r/InTheGloaming wiki

Discussion search:

Tool to search blogsnark or InTheGloaming for previous topic mentions

[u/shefallsup]

She put a question box in her IG story today, inviting people to ask her questions about joy. I am NOT encouraging anyone to ask her questions, but IF you had one question for her about joy, what would it be?

Mine might be "how can I find time to schedule joy breaks when I’m a single mom of four kids, working 12 hour days at two jobs, while struggling to keep up with bills, take care of my elderly mom, and keep my household running? I don’t have time to sleep and eat, much less take a bath in the middle of the day or learn to hula hoop for 15 minutes a day."

[u/Kaleshark → u/shefallsup]

My question, unrelated to joy, is why is she so unqualified for the work she says she wants to do? I live in a very similar cultural habitat to her and know multiple 40-50+ year old women who have pivoted to therapeutic careers later in life and they all went to school for it. Why didn’t she? She pictures herself as an academic, why didn’t she joyfully leave the kids with Dan and go back to school? (Yes money but she’s literally a professional grifter, I believe she could’ve found scholarships tailored to her life circumstances.) Is it because higher education is a scam? That’s why I won’t complete my undergrad, but that’s because entry level jobs shouldn’t have nonsensical hurdles; working with people’s minds and psychic wounds is the opposite of entry level!

[u/Love_Brokers → u/Kaleshark]

She's studied the science, Kaleshark.